US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Jan. 28 for "Vehicle ceramic surface treatment composition and process for use thereof" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,189, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Vehicle ceramic surface treatment composition and process for use thereof" was invented by Ali Alwattari (Glenview, Ill.), Tsao-Chin Clarence Huang (Glenview, Ill.) and John Isidoro Escoto Jr. (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle surface treatment composition includes a colloidal inorganic oxide dispersion or a soluble silicate amenable to application to both porous and semi-porous vehicle hard surfaces to provide a multi-surface protective barrier that imparts water repellency and weathering protection properties to the vehicle fi...